Tag: Satellites

Indian Space Research Organization is planning to launch another Earth Observation satellite call HySIS or Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite. ISRO has developed a critical chip called Optical Imaging Detection Array. It has been testing the chip. Once perfected it will launch the satellite. Launch date has not been finalised yet. Hyperspectral Imaging has been a trend for a while now and most of the space faring nations are working on it now. ISRO has developed the tech according to Indian requirements. And after the launch ISRO will be able to see 55 spectral or colour bands from 600 km above....

On Friday 22nd June , 2017 . India will launch its Earth Observation Satellite Cartosat-2 and 30 other nano satellites mostly foreign made at 9:29 am from Launch pad 1 at SriHarikota Space port . This will be ISRO’s workhorse PSLV‘s 40th flight also. Out of 30 Nano satellites 29 of them are from foreign countries, Austria, Belgium, Chile, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, the UK and the US. The other Nano satellite is from India, Students of Noorul Islam University made this satellite. All Satellites including Cartosat-2 will be placed in to the 505 Km Sun...

One of a kind , a power full rocket soared in to the space from Satish Dhawan Space center, Sriharikota. On June 5th, 2017 India has successfully launched GSLV MK III D1 with hopes that one day it will be able to carry Astronauts in to the space , a feat has already been achieved by indias immediate neighbor and space rival china. USA and Russia were the other two countries achieved this feat . At 5:28 PM , It’s indigenously built cryogenic engine roared and with 2.2 million pounds of thrust from 2 solid rocket boosters took the Indian behemoth into...

“Necessity is the mother of all inventions” This is indeed true in the case of Cryogenic rocket engines since they were invented when the world needed them the most. During the World War II the American, Soviet and German engineers independently found that their rocket engines require high mass flow rate for both the fuel and oxidizer used in the rocket engines to generate maximum thrust. Back then, the most common oxidizer and fuel combinations used were that of oxygen and hydrocarbons of low molecular weight respectively. Both these elements share the gaseous state of matter at the room...